After the treat of a moon over New York City, I found myself comfortable
\nand cheery at my childhood home in Killingworth, CT. I had the pleasure of
\nSaturday and Sunday night with my parents, catching up on all the
\npolitical gossip with mom and watching the monster of the Milky Way
\ndevour whole suns with my father. I just don’t get to see my parents all
\nthat much anymore, largely due to geographic reasons. Skype and e-mail
\nare great, but never the same as beer and pizza with the folks.<\/p>\n
\nTo my delight and disappointment, I got to spend an extra day in Killngworth.
\nIt was delightful because it was 24 more hours with my parents, and it was
\ndissapointing because I spent it tired and nauseous. I managed to catch
\na small case of food poisoning, which kept me nauseous and verging on
\nvomiting and diarrhea from 9 pm Sunday night until 5:30 am Monday morning.
\nA cup of ginger ale finally made the nausea subside, enough to catch
\na few hours of sleep. I ribbed my mom that it was her cooking, joking
\nthat “Munschausen by proxy was funny when I was a kid, but . . . “<\/p>\n
\nI had two days at MIT to catch up on work with one of our students. At
\nlunchtime on both days I was treated to some fun. The first day I
\ndelivered a short seminar on the implications of B factory research
\nfor physics at the Large Hadron Collider and International Linear
\nCollider.Great pizza accompanied great questions, and conversation with
\nsome old friends from the Institute. The next day, I was invited to fill
\nan empty slot at the Pappalardo Fellows lunch, a weekly affair that draws
\nFellows together with young and old faculty for an hour of excellent
\nfare and great conversation. We chatted about the changing face of
\nNSF funcding for astronomy, the biological origins of religion, and
\nthe hope for a new simple idea that might explain all of the emergent
\nphenomena that appear in our universe.<\/p>\n
\nToday I left Boston, had a quick cup of coffee and a bite to eat in
\nHartford with my old pal Eric, and headed for Newark. I got lost in
\nDanbury, thinking I’d missed the exit for 684, and wound up on 7
\nheading to Norwalk where I could catch I-95. I managed to get to the
\nTappan Zee Bridge, down the Garden State Parkway, only to flub my
\nlast few turns within sight of the car rental place. I still made it
\nwith a few hours to spare, but considering I left at 8:30 am it was
\na long, long day. To boot, my flight will be an hour and a half
\nlate into San Jose, robbing me of desperately needed sleep ahead of
\nthe arrival of Jodi’s family tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\nLet the two-body problem continue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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